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Hello,
My name is Elijah. I’d like to share my real estate story with you all:
At 17, I drove to Los Angeles from my small hometown in Vermont. I arrived with $200 in my bank account and all my belongings in an old ...
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Hi all, I want to start a thread about the pros and cons of listing STRs with a personal individual hosting account vs as a 'brand' or 'business' account. I currently own and self-manage two STRs in Maine and should b...
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Hello,I am new to real estate investing and decided to go with Easy Street Capital as our lender for the DSCR loan.They already ran out credit and we went under contract on a property after getting the pre-qualificati...
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Hello BP,I am just getting started and have been active in my local REIA, I have been approached, about a week after a meeting, by a member who has offered his mentorship and would like to do a deal with a 50/50 split...
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Hello everyone,I have a bit of money in an IRA right now that I would like to eventually use towards the purchase of a rental property. I am looking for advice from other investors who have used their IRA money. What ...
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I have been procrastinating on writing my business plan. I have a "good" excuse. I wanted to make up my mind once and for all what kind of entity I wanted to go with before I committed any thing to writing. After all...
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To clarify my situation, I am in my first year of landlording, househacking a duplex, so I live next door to tenant. Tenant hasn't even been here a full six months and has broken the lease I feel several ways, but Im ...
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My partner and I did our first deal a few years ago which went really well and we have about 1-1.5M in equity, but the problem is that the cash flow it generates is not that great - partly because cap rates are so ...